Still nothing useful as to proving a board was "burnt with flame and smoke". If you're saying its due to the smell then its probably from someone unglueing heatsinks off a dead board with a torch. If you're saying that the dark ones are a different color because they've been in a fire, that's even more ridiculous - its nickel plating.
The dark one are different color , because they are not cleaned and sooty.
At this point I have to assume you're trolling or shilling, because you're a grown ass man with a technical profession claiming that the nickel coated heatsinks are actually "covered in soot".
Click to enlargeHere, On this picture is only pure aluminum radiators. Let your eyeglasses prescription renewed.Nickel coated heatsinks are on the other side of the blade.
Just ignore him Tupsu.
He isn't happy unless he is being the bitmain fanboy of the year.
He is probably still getting paid under the table by bitmain for various things.
No matter how many times they openly state to the forum he doesn't represent bitmain and has been an embarrassment, privately, they probably still use him and laugh at the stupidity he wallows in as they do so.
It is pretty simple actually. If he was an asset and had any knowledge then they would have him onboard, and praise him. For the most part he pisses people off, especially once people learn the absurd advice he gives while always arguing over stupid little things which have little to no bearing on anything.
I appreciate you sharing your experiences Tupsu and look forward to more updates of the mining gear you purchase.
The Avalon warranty starts the day you receive it. Do you have any inside scope on picking up some of those? If so, I would be interested in going in with you. I want to get at least a couple right away, but I may get more to meet a 'MOQ'.
Pic looks like soot on heatsinks to me.
I have components of different products which are nickel coated. If there is not a friction point the coating is a superb idea in a saltwater environment. Even 20 miles away from it, it makes a difference. Every "Mild Steel" you purchase, or aluminum, or stainless, whatever has a certain nickel content. Along with Chromium, Iron, etc.
Nickel coating over other materials is and has been a common manufacturing process for thousands, probably hundreds of thousands of years. This is a requirement if you have a potential exposure to a volatile environment where the potential exposure to saltwater environments exists.
Maybe Bitmain built a batch to go to a huge farm close to the sea and had some heatsinks left over?
Anything is possible.
I wouldn't call Tupsu a liar unless I had facts to back me up. I might ask him to take close up pictures of the nickel coating, if, IF, I even fucking cared. Some people do not need facts, they simply spout off whatever and whenever. Eventually, some people have enough of that shit and call it out. Because Tupsu called someone out they want to follow him around whining like a little bitch.
I have no reason to doubt him, he has always been honest in everything I have read. I won't say he, or anyone hasn't made a mistake, but I know for myself, again, who cares, we all do.
In closing I would have to say for the people who love to run in riding the dog. Simply read back and see what he has done in this thread, and then, check out a couple of these. Quite entertaining:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=905210.0https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1018906.0Don't spend all of your time in one or the other of those threads. It will burn you out seeing the same crap time after time.
What they do not provide are enough specific examples of the bad information he has given people but it doesn't take much reading back through the posts to see all of the times he does exactly what he did in this thread. Post behind someone trying to make them look unintelligent without any reasons at all. If Tupsu has been guilty of anything it has been due to a language issue, but the mutt wants to badger and badger without any realistic reason. People like Tupsu are valuable to our community. He actually does things with equipment and posts about it. Maybe Tupsu should regurgitate the manufacturer specifications and clutter the forum with such.